avantement (s.xiii2)
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avantement (s.xiii2)

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[ FEW: *14,156a vanitare; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF:  vanter (*); DMF:  avantement; TLF: ∅; OED:  avauntment n.; MED:  avauntment n.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
avontement  

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1praise: 
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  et quant a la avantement que moun meistre et autres escolers ont fait de moi, lour merci  371
2pej.boasting, self-praise: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  paroles de avontement, de losengerie, de feintise  269
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  cel orgoilleus avantement dont il issi s’en vanta  87.15
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  jactancia: avantement  i 141
♦pej.boastful disclosure, blazoning abroad: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  bien (=good behaviour) mustré e decovert nen est pas tant seulement perdu par cele mustrance e par cel avantement  235.2
avancement 
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